Official Freedom Trail® App

Official Freedom Trail® App

By The Freedom Trail Foundation

  • Category: Travel
  • Release Date: 2022-07-21
  • Current Version: 9.0.96
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 102.26 MB
  • Developer: The Freedom Trail Foundation
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Score: 2
2
From 5 Ratings

Description

Experience more than 250 years of history with the official Freedom Trail® app! Boston’s revolutionary past comes to life with this innovative app, including a self-guided audio tour, interactive map, pictures, and more. The iconic 2.5-mile Freedom Trail connects 16 of America’s most significant historical landmarks, including museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond. Special Features of this App: - Over 1.5 hours of audio content tells the stories of the Freedom Trail, including music and guest interviews with historians, academics, authors, and others. - The audio for each stop plays automatically thanks to GPS mapping. - An interactive map helps you find your next stop on the Freedom Trail with ease. - Photos and illustrations help direct your eyes and place you within the stories covered. This app is an official product of The Freedom Trail® Foundation. Established in 1964, the Freedom Trail Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that markets, promotes, and helps to preserve the Freedom Trail through visitor services and programs, educational programs, and marketing and public relations efforts. The Foundation’s Preservation Fund helps support preservation, rehabilitation, and capital projects for official Freedom Trail historic sites; these projects help avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse effects of the elements and manmade wear and tear of Boston’s precious 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sites. For more information about the Freedom Trail, please visit TheFreedomTrail.org

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Reviews

  • App drops audio

    2
    By ccd16
    The app has a lot of good content and quotes from different people, etc. But - At many sites the audio would stop abruptly at the same spot no matter how many times I tried to play it - the transitions between stops can be a bit glitchy and hard to follow. You had to manually go back and play different segments
  • Tech Support Was Great

    4
    By Cal0420
    I sent a message to The Freedom Trail App support yesterday at 11:06a, because Stop 27 was not listed on the map. By 1:54p I received a response from Freedom Trail. The message said the technician was going to make an adjustment. Later in the afternoon, I noticed the glitch was fixed. The app will be great to have when I’m in Boston this summer!
  • Functionality not so good

    2
    By Mr Ben L
    The information here is great, but the app’s functionality still has a ways to go. The GPS sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t. It’s very hard to go back-and-forth between the information and the map. Every time you go back to the map, it zooms all the way out, so you have to fiddle with it to see where you are. On a cold day this made it really difficult to navigate. Because the GPS triggering didn’t always work, I ended up reading the information more than I listened to it.

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